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January 2024 (continued)

  1. Intel Application Optimization: not very interesting

    I gave Intel Application Optimization a go. And then uninstalled it.

December 2023

  1. I upgraded my Intel Core i9-13900 to an i9-14900K

    There was a good deal on a 14900K during Black Friday weekend, so I decided to buy one as a fairly low-cost upgrade from my non-K 13900. Did I get a good…

November 2023

  1. Be careful buying an Intel BE200 M.2 card

    Here’s a picture of an Intel AX210 card: And here’s a picture of an Intel BE200 card: If you’re observant, you may have noticed that the connector is slightly…

  1. Jupiter and Saturn with my Canon camera

    I recently bought a Canon RF 800mm F11 IS STM lens for my Canon EOS R camera. While the lens is light for an 800mm lens, it’s still too large and heavy to take…

October 2023

  1. The bugs in File Explorer

    The latest version of Windows 11 includes an updated version of File Explorer, built using the Windows App SDK. Some parts of File Explorer haven’t actually…

  1. I made a website for my photos

    Photography is a small hobby of mine, and I used to post some of my photos on photography websites like 500px. But, apart from blurry photos, on that site you…

August 2023

  1. A super blue moon

    Taking photos of the moon is always fun. Here’s one I took last night, from London: (It’s not quite up there with the one on the Wikipedia page for the moon,…

  1. A Win32 tree view scrolling oddity

    It turns out the Win32 tree view control has a novel way of selecting items. If you hold down Shift and scroll your mouse wheel up (but not down!) it will…

July 2023

  1. The case of the misplaced GitHub username

    Recently, when using GitHub’s global code search, I noticed something amiss with one of the results: The file path of the result was somewhat confused.…

April 2023

  1. A new PC build

    I had been using an Intel Core i7-8700K since October 2017, patiently waiting for a good opportunity to upgrade. Fed up of waiting, I ordered some new…

March 2023

  1. The 404 errors in the Google Pixel Discover feed

    My Google Pixel 5 Android phone has a feature called a ‘Discover’ feed, which I often look at. The feed contains articles that Google thinks I’d be interested…

  1. The pervasiveness of caret browsing in Windows 10

    When I’m using Visual Studio, I often press the F7 key to start a build. But, a few days ago, I accidentally tried to do that when a taskbar item context menu…

February 2023

  1. Week bits: A turbulent day with Ubuntu

    I’m trying something different for this post – it's spoken (a short podcast, if you like). Week bits 19/02/2023: A turbulent day with…

January 2023

  1. ‘Your business contact information is processed by Lusha Systems Inc.’

    A few days ago, I received this text message: The sender was simply a mysterious ‘Privacy’. Was this a genuine notification about some company having my data,…

  1. An unexpected DPI-scaling failure

    Recently, I printed this colour chart using X-Rite’s i1Profiler calibration software: I was creating some calibrated ICC profiles for my printer for the first…

December 2022

  1. The oddness of the BBC Weather scroll bar

    I often would find myself confused by the scroll bar underneath the days in the forecast on the BBC Weather website. Sometimes it would look like the days were…

September 2022

April 2022

  1. A message from my bank

    I recently tried to move money between two accounts held with the same business bank. I did everything as I usually would, using the relevant mobile…

December 2021

  1. The ten-month-old SSD that ate my data

    I recently noticed that the audio player I use, foobar2000, was refusing to play a certain song in my media library. It complained that the file was corrupt.…

November 2021

  1. Seaford to Eastbourne: a long walk

    I had some free time in mid-September, so decided to go on what seemed like the most picturesque hike that was relatively close to home. I jumped on a train to…